TY - GEN
T1 - The importance of RADARSAT-2 imagery in monitoring river ice cover characteristics and behaviour
AU - Lindenschmidt, Karl Erich
AU - Das, Apurba
AU - Sagin, Jay
PY - 2014/11/4
Y1 - 2014/11/4
N2 - Past attempts have been made to predict ice cover characteristics and behavior along rivers, both during at freeze-up and breakup conditions; however these attempts perform with varying success and are for the most part site specific. This research introduces a geospatial modelling approach which can fulfil the task of improving the predictive power of river freeze-up and ice cover breakup events. A geospatial model clusters discretized sections of a river that have similar geomorphological (e.g. sinuosity, slope, width, etc.) and ice cover (e.g. ice thickness and type) features under certain hydraulic and meteorological conditions using a multi-variant statistical clustering technique such as the principle component analysis. These clusters can then be grouped into Geomorphic Response Units, each representing a particular set of ice cover characteristics and behavior along the river. RADARSAT-2 imagery and field sampling complement the work to help in the development of the geospatial model. The Slave River in Canada is used as a test site.
AB - Past attempts have been made to predict ice cover characteristics and behavior along rivers, both during at freeze-up and breakup conditions; however these attempts perform with varying success and are for the most part site specific. This research introduces a geospatial modelling approach which can fulfil the task of improving the predictive power of river freeze-up and ice cover breakup events. A geospatial model clusters discretized sections of a river that have similar geomorphological (e.g. sinuosity, slope, width, etc.) and ice cover (e.g. ice thickness and type) features under certain hydraulic and meteorological conditions using a multi-variant statistical clustering technique such as the principle component analysis. These clusters can then be grouped into Geomorphic Response Units, each representing a particular set of ice cover characteristics and behavior along the river. RADARSAT-2 imagery and field sampling complement the work to help in the development of the geospatial model. The Slave River in Canada is used as a test site.
KW - RADARSAT-2
KW - Slave River
KW - geomorphic response units
KW - geospatial modelling
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U2 - 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946643
DO - 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946643
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84911396032
T3 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
SP - 1186
EP - 1189
BT - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - Joint 2014 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2014 and the 35th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, CSRS 2014
Y2 - 13 July 2014 through 18 July 2014
ER -